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Visual Materials
Image of a full-length portrait of United States Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles during the American Civil War sitting at a table and holding a pen; map of the United States on back wall and view out window of soldiers marching in formation.
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Manuscripts
Document signed; printed form, filled in. Signed by Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. Seward. Includes addressed envelope labeled Department of State Official Business. (1 page)
WE 225
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Manuscripts
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Manuscripts
Letters, manuscripts (including Welles' 1846-1849 diaries), documents and ephemera covering Welles' career as a naval administrator: Chief of Bureau of Provision & Clothing for the Navy, 1846-1849; Secretary of the Navy, 1861-1869 (requests for appointments, purchase of government vessels by George D. Morgan); criticism of Welles's successor, George Maxwell Robeson, and Robeson's assistant David Dixon Porter. Naval operations during the Civil War, including blockades, letters of marque, and the capture of New Orleans in April, 1862; Welles' views on Reconstruction politics; Abraham Lincoln, and Andrew Johnson. Much of the correspondence is written to Welles' son, Edgar T. Welles.
WE 225